Parks Hersheypark

mattypark

mattypark
Season’s Greetings All! After 8 months of building, below are a few shots of my favorite real-world park, Hersheypark, remodeled in Planet Coaster.

The park was modeled as it looked in 2016 – with space carved out for the Boardwalk (water park) in the event the PC team decides to release water slides and pools in the future.

Adding a few final touches before uploading to the Workshop for you to visit the “Sweetest Place on Earth” for yourself, and try your hand at managing this massive park!

The Park Entrance

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Looking into The Hollow we find Great Bear, Comet, and Skyrush!

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Skyrush dominates the skyline

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Reese's Xtreme Cup Challenge! (Ride this one at night for the best game experience)

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Stormrunner

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More Skyrush!

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Midway America is home to Ferris Wheel, 2 wooden coasters, Wild Mouse, and the all new Laugh Track coaster (ride at night for the best game experience)

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The park's Music Express was improved with the last update

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Great Bear!

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Founder's Circle with Skyrush in the distance

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Stay tuned for more...
 

mattypark

mattypark
A few more images before uploading to the workshop, hopefully later this week. Also, made a summary video with a few shots as well:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/rQLBmKxQa70

Looks like it will be a crowded day today!
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Looking down into The Hollow, we find Comet, Wave Swinger, and Great Bear.
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Another shot of The Hollow
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When installing Great Bear, the engineers had to use some creative, custom supports.
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Overview of the park from Kissing Tower, we see Kissing Tower Hill, The Hollow, and Founders Circle in the distance.
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From Kissing Tower we see Pioneer Frontier and Midway America in the distance. The undeveloped land is where the Boardwalk (waterpark) goes someday.
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Fahrenheit is opening for the day
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Tidal Force is a large shoot-the-shoot ride. Hopefully in the future the developers will release a true splash boat ride so it can be updated!
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Skyrush is the tallest coaster in the park – it packs a punch!
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Pioneer Frontier in the evening as guests try to get their last rides in
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Robert K

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Looks good. I’ll have to check it out. Did you put the Dry Gulch RR in? I haven’t been to HP since 1985 I think. I was only there once or twice as a kid. They have added more rides and coasters like Dorney Park did. I live near Dorney. How about a Dutch Wonderland or Knoebels next?
 

mattypark

mattypark
wowman said:
this park looks great
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Thank you!

Robert K said:
Looks good. I’ll have to check it out. Did you put the Dry Gulch RR in? ...How about a Dutch Wonderland or Knoebels next?
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Thank you! Yes, DGRR is included. Haven't been to DW in quite a long time. Knoebels would be a fun park to recreate!
 

Robert K

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I subscribed to the park, it is a very good recreation. But I made some adjustments to the railroad track after unlocking it, I made the grade more gentle on the section after leaving the station and over the bridge and straightened some sections and eliminated and moved some trees because the branches were too low over the track. Years ago the train had a turn around loop at each end, they must have made it a full loop at some point. You even made the two newer indoor rides Reese's Xtreme Cup Challenge and Laff Trakk with theming. You made a bunch of fake rides to make them more like the real ones.
 

Robert K

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Do people not ride transport rides when there is just one station? The steam train and monorail are transport rides. If that is true, I wish they could somehow reprogram the train and monorail so that people will ride it as a scenic ride with just one station. In RCT3 it was the opposite. People would ride trains and monorails as a ride, not necessarily to get to a different area of the park. So people would ride them with just one station. Also years ago in the real Hersheypark the train had a western town at the other end with a shoot out, do they not have that anymore? That was back when the layout was different, around 1985, it had turning loops at each end and the train would cross the high bridge twice per run in opposite directions. You can do that in Planet Coaster, just have to overlap the tracks between the loops with collision off. I decided to try something. I extended the train ride into the area that is actually part of the waterpark and put a second station near the Tidal Wave across the path from the Nathan Hot Dog. It’s fictional. Due to the change in elevation and height between the DGRR area and the Tidal Wave area I had to do a lot of ground smoothing in that area so that the tracks weren’t buried in spots.
 

Robert K

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Here is a shot of a second DGRR station, completely fictional, I extended the tracks into the area where the waterpark would be, as a "what if". The tracks go along the edge by the trees then loop around in the empty area between Lightning Racer and Tidal Force. The second station is across diagonally from Nathan's Hot Dog. I did this to make the train ride a little longer and so that people will actually ride the train. I believe they won't ride it if there is just one station. I still left space though for the waterslide area between Wild Mouse and Ferris Wheel, wave pool and lazy river where the rapids ride used to be.

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vortical

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This is awesome work! How long did this take? Are all the coasters built from scratch, or are some of them existing designs from the workshop?
 
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vortical

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Robert K said:
Looks good. I’ll have to check it out. Did you put the Dry Gulch RR in? I haven’t been to HP since 1985 I think. I was only there once or twice as a kid. They have added more rides and coasters like Dorney Park did. I live near Dorney. How about a Dutch Wonderland or Knoebels next?
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Hershey and Knoebels were always the parks I have wanted to build all the way back to the RCT days. Looks like SOMEONE beat me to Hershey [tongue] but it at least gives me hope that Knoebles will be possible some day. The big obstacles right now are the lack of splash boats (Skloosh), Bobsled Coaster, and Kiddie Rides. The splash boats and bobsled could mabey be worked around by doing place-holder rides or a 'vintage' version of the park. The Kiddie rides however would be a whole different animal. They make up at least a good 25% of the park and most of them are stand-alone so there is no way to replace them with scenery. A good chunk of them have been around since the 70's or earlier, so 'vintage' park is also out. Someday mabey a game will have all the features needed for a park like that. Until then, back to dreaming I guess.
 

mattypark

mattypark
vortical said:
This is awesome work! How long did this take? Are all the coasters built from scratch, or are some of them existing designs from the workshop?
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Thank you! It took me several months...I started it sometime last Spring and worked on it off-and-on since then. The coasters are from scratch .
 

vortical

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Have you thought about posting any of the coasters as separate blueprints? There are some really good replicas there, especially the Great Bear. In fact, the only coasters I saw that seemed a little off were Trailblazer and Skyrush.
 

jesric1029

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mattypark said:
Season’s Greetings All! After 8 months of building, below are a few shots of my favorite real-world park, Hersheypark, remodeled in Planet Coaster.

The park was modeled as it looked in 2016 – with space carved out for the Boardwalk (water park) in the event the PC team decides to release water slides and pools in the future.

Adding a few final touches before uploading to the Workshop for you to visit the “Sweetest Place on Earth” for yourself, and try your hand at managing this massive park!

The Park Entrance

https://preview.ibb.co/fFRNSw/1.jpg

Looking into The Hollow we find Great Bear, Comet, and Skyrush!

https://preview.ibb.co/fddrLG/2.jpg

Skyrush dominates the skyline

https://preview.ibb.co/j1WBLG/3.jpg

Reese's Xtreme Cup Challenge! (Ride this one at night for the best game experience)

https://preview.ibb.co/chUbnw/4.jpg

Stormrunner

https://preview.ibb.co/cryrLG/5.jpg

More Skyrush!

https://preview.ibb.co/gVH7ub/6.jpg

Midway America is home to Ferris Wheel, 2 wooden coasters, Wild Mouse, and the all new Laugh Track coaster (ride at night for the best game experience)

https://preview.ibb.co/iSorLG/7.jpg

The park's Music Express was improved with the last update

https://preview.ibb.co/mAg0Eb/8.jpg

Great Bear!

https://preview.ibb.co/jFirLG/9.jpg

Founder's Circle with Skyrush in the distance

https://preview.ibb.co/nEjbnw/10.jpg

Stay tuned for more...
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Very cool! I will have to check this out when I get a chance.

I actually went to this park when I was a kid. Very memorable and cool park. One thing I remember is how even being outside the park smells like chocolate because of the big factories making Hershey.

Really curious if/how you were able to do the one ride inside that goes through the history of the company and stuff, if that ride is even still there in 2016.
 

mattypark

mattypark
vortical said:
If you are interested, I managed to create a version of Fahrenheit using the Typhoon track, which is a much closer match to what the RL coaster uses. It still needs some tweaking to fit into the station scenery and a bit of smoothing but overall I think I got pretty close. Here is the link (the name is spelled wrong, I'll fix it when I get a chance): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1245194523
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Nice - the update which allowed for swapping of trains was released around the time I posted the park, and I did not realize the Typhoon allowed for those trains. I'll likely update it similarly. Agree, it does look better with that version.

jesric1029 said:
... One thing I remember is how even being outside the park smells like chocolate because of the big factories making Hershey.

Really curious if/how you were able to do the one ride inside that goes through the history of the company and stuff, if that ride is even still there in 2016.
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Thanks! Unfortunately they closed the original factory next to the park a few years ago and opened a new facility down the road. Chocolate World and the Hershey's Factory Tour ride is not modeled due in interest of performance and the lack of an Omnimover-style ride in the game. The tour does still exist, though, and is still free!
 
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